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Subject: Re.  public domain awk for PC
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Date: Mon, 3-Aug-87 11:31:55 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  3 11:31:55 1987
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    In article <659@hsi.UUCP>, mark@hsi.UUCP (Mark Sicignano) writes:
    > I'm looking for an Awk program to run on my MS-DOS machine.  I
    > would like to find a source in the public domain, but any info
    > on a version which isn't public domain would be very helpful too.

I posted a reply to this recommending MKS toolkit, and got
the following reply by mail:

> Somebody forwarded me your message; unfortunately, it did not contain
> enough information for me to reply to the original inquirer directly.

> Jay Fenlason and I have written a free Awk replacement for the GNU
> Project called "gawk".  It, too, is not public domain, but it is licensed
> under a GNU copyleft which means that anyone can copy it or distribute
> copies as long as they include source code and do not try to prevent further
> redistribution (including of any changes they have made).  I believe
> someone has ported it to the IBM PC, but am not sure.  Contact
> hack@prep.ai.mit.edu for further information.

> Would you mind posting this reply on those newsgroups?
> I'm unable to from here.  Thanks.

	> paul rubin
	> GNU project

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